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AP investigative reporter offers tips for seeking public records

The Associated Press is committed to fighting for access to information the public has a right to know. AP journalists across the country routinely file Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover critical information that the government would have preferred to keep secret. Washington investigative reporter Jack Gillum recently broke the story that Hillary Clinton used a private email server at her home, and he mined information on Instagram to track Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock’s spending. Gillum frequently draws from records requests to report exclusives. Here, he explains why they should be part of every journalist’s toolkit:

PM Carney says ‘Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland’

JAN. 21, 2026

Americans still give awards shows consideration, a new AP-NORC poll finds

Many Americans still want to thank the academy, at least a little. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve watched all or most of an awards show on TV or streaming in the past year, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, while just over half say they’ve watched clips from […]

SEPT. 11, 2025

AAPI adults mostly think Trump has done more harm than good on immigration, new poll finds

Most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders believe President Donald Trump has done more harm than good on the issue of immigration and border security in his second term so far, according to a new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll. About 6 in 10 AAPI adults say Trump has hurt immigration and border security “a lot” […]

MARCH 23, 2026

AP’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning photos

AP today earned its 54th Pulitzer Prize – 32nd for photography – in the feature photography category for compelling images of daily life under military lockdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

AP appoints Daisy Veerasingham as agency’s president and CEO

Daisy Veerasingham. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press appointed Daisy Veerasingham, its executive vice president and chief operating officer, as the news cooperative’s president and CEO on Tuesday, setting her up to replace the retiring Gary Pruitt at the beginning of next year. She will become the first woman, first person of […]

AUG. 3, 2021

First in-depth study into video news consumption reveals high levels of consumer demand

A new report for the Associated Press, produced by Deloitte, with research by GfK provides the first in-depth study into video news consumption. The report entitled ‘White Smoke: The new era for video news’, demonstrates the increasingly critical role of video in online news sites. The report, based on a survey of respondents in UK, Germany, and Spain examines demand for video news content and the implications for broadcasters, publishers and other organisations offering online news.

APRIL 16, 2013

AP calls the presidential race – state by state

NEW YORK -- Since 1848, the Associated Press has counted the votes on which many news organizations base their projections and declare winners.

NOV. 7, 2012

AP, Google award six $20,000 scholarships

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Associated Press and Google today announced the second recipients of a national scholarship program targeted at college students whose innovative projects exemplify the new journalist in the digital media age. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, administers the program. The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship […]

JUNE 3, 2013

AP reporter recounts covering fall of Berlin Wall in 1989

In this Oct. 31, 2019 photo, Frieder Reimold, former Berlin bureau chief of AP’s German service, shows an undated photo from late 1989 or early 1990 showing the staff of the AP German service Berlin offices. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) History didn’t give Reimold a break that night. About an hour into the rambling news conference, Schabowski […]

NOV. 7, 2019

AP All-America team: Travis Hunter, Xavier Watts back on first team; Ashton Jeanty is unanimous pick

Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter of Colorado was a first-team selection at two spots and a second-team pick at another on The Associated Press All-America team announced Monday. Hunter and Notre Dame safety Xavier Watts were repeat first-team selections, and Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty was the only unanimous pick after he posted one of the […]

DEC. 16, 2024

AP VoteCast takeaways: Gender voting gap was unremarkable compared with recent history

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ran a campaign centered on hypermasculinity, actively courting young men in particular with interviews on popular male-centric podcasts. In the closing weeks of the campaign, the former president and many of his surrogates leaned into sexist remarks and jokes about Vice President Kamala Harris. Some of his supporters, including […]

NOV. 6, 2024